The TIP provides venues so the voices of First Nations people can be heard. One of the consequences of racism against First Nations people has been the silencing of their voices, and the eagerness of Euro- Americans to speak for them, thus robbing them of their own freedom of speech.
The “Native American Experience” has been filtered through the lenses of a foreign culture that does not have the right, and lack the ability to speak to the most fundamental realities of Native experience.